The Frank Brewer Cornish Library

Three picture books. 'Seaside Sketches No.1,' published by J. Newman, 48, Watling St, London, original wraps, booklet consists of 6 colour engrave...

Four works. W. Hawk (Chairman of the Cornwall County Council 1919-1925). 'Thirty Years [of] Agricultural Experiments in Cornwall,' original cloth,...

Capt. Charles Thomas of Dolcoath Mine, Camborne. 'Tables for Ascertaining the Value of Tin Stuff,' first edition, 82 pages, in original binding, a...

Thomas Hudson. 'Temperance Pioneers of the West Personal and Incidental Experiences'. First edition, tipped in is a programme ‘’First Great Abstai...

Rev. H. A. Simcoe. 'Tracts Printed at the Penheale-Press, On Various Subjects'. Volume I, first edition, 54 tracts bound in one vol, in original b...

Richard Treffry. 'Memoirs of Richard Trewavas, Sen., Of Mousehole, Cornwall,' 'To Which is Prefixed an Account of Methodism in Mousehole,' first e...

William Bolitho. 'Nugae. A Rhyming Medley'. First edition, 53 deckled pages, over all good condition, printed for private circulation by W. Brendo...

The Fox family. Three works, 'Records from Papers and Letters Respecting Charles Fox of Trebah, Near Falmouth. Obit April 18th 1878,' first editio...

Two works on wrecking and one on the Bude Canal. Henry Dawson Lowry. 'Wreckers and Methodists and Other Stories,' first edition, with the signatur...

Three biographical works. Edith Oldham. 'Seaweed. A Cornish Idyll,' first edition, a little fading otherwise a good copy, The Unversity Press Ltd,...

Two works published by The Holman Bros. Bernard Hollowood (illustrated by Terence Cuneo). 'Cornish Engineers,' first edition, dedicated to all pas...

Penlee and other Cornish Interest Michael Sagar-Fenton, Penlee ‘the loss of a life boat’, first edition, 1991. Published by Bossiney Books, St Tea...

Rev. Aeneas Barkly Hutchinson A Monograph on the History and Restoration of the Parish Church of St Mary, Callington Published by G. H. Lidstone, ...

Two booklets. 'Bye–Laws Made by the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Saltash Acting as the Urban Sanitary Authority,' first edition...

Six works related to Cornwall Helston Flora Day and Logan's Rock, Porthcurno Interest Municipal Corporations in England and Wales. ‘’Report on the...

Rev. Malachy Hitchins Account of the discovery of silver in Herland Copper Mine (near Gwennap) Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks on the 12th Februa...

J. S. Haldane. 'Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department,' 'On an Outbreak of Ankylostomiasis in a Cornish Mine,' in original wrap...

Windsor Chair Interest Bill Cotton. 'Windsor Chairs in the South-West,' published by Area Museums Council (South-West). Many of the Windsor chairs...

Dan Sprod The Tregurtha Log 'Relating the Adventurous Life of Capt. Edward Primrose Tregurtha.’ first edition 1980, published by The Blubber Head...

Alan Stoyel & Peter Williams Images of Cornish Tin Published by Landmark Publishing, Ashbourne. Superb full-colour photo book illustrating many as...

Cornish Rugby Interest W. J. Robbins (editor), Rugby in the Duchy, first edition, 1934, published by Cornwall Rugby Football Union. This year bein...

List of Antiquities in the Hundreds of Kirrier and Penwith, West Cornwall J. T. Blight (arranged with an illustrated appendix) With references to ...

Cornwall Excavation Interest Lieut-Colonel F. C. Hirst, Excavations at Porthmeor, Cornwall. 1933,1934 and 1935. First edition, 1937, Oscar Blackfo...

Mount Edgcumbe A walk round Mount-Edgcumbe Printed by Congdon and Hearle, at The Telegraph Office, Fore-Street, Plymouth-Dock. This edition has a...

Four works with interest in Heligan, The Tamar and David Penhaligan, Annette Penhaligon. 'Penhaligan', first edition, the life of David Penhaligan...

Cornish Politics Interest Prime Minister’s Visit, Tregrehan, Par Station 23rd June, 1927, bound in green boards, with gilt lettering to the front ...

George Woodley Cornubia A poem in five cantos, descriptive of the most interesting scenery, natural and artificial in the County of Cornwall inter...

William Francis Gwennap - A Descriptive Poem In Seven Cantos Published by J. May, Fore St, Redruth, private printing with XVI subscribers with lis...

Three works on Cornwall Dolly Pentreath Beneath The Moon, a story of Cornwall and India, 1899 second edition, Jas J. Guthrie at the Pear Tree Pres...

J.A.D. Bridger Twenty-Eight Catalogues Issued by this West Country (particularly cornish ) book seller. These catalogues date from 1909 to 1938. ...

Clift Family Interest Frances Austin, The Clift Family Correspondence, 1792-1846, 1991 first edition, pub Centre for English Cultural Tradition &L...

Three works related to Cornish places The Rev. Aug. B. Donaldson M.A. The Bishopric of Truro - the first twenty five years 1877-1902, (with a poem...

Five works with a nautical interest. A.J.Villiers. 'Falmouth for Orders', first edition, 301 pages, dustwrapper with small tears, otherwise a goo...

James Trathan The Ancient and Modern History of Falmouth Containing useful information with respect to the town, harbour, packet establishment etc...

R. Wellington Tables for Ascertaining the Value of Any Quantity of Black Tin, 1836 From 1lb to 10 tons at any price from £20 to £90 per ton. S. Be...

English China Clay, Quarterly Reviews 1957- 1967 Quarterly reviews starting Christmas 1957 (which includes an article on the visit of the late H. ...

I. T. Tregellas, five volumes of Cornish Tales. Bound in one volume, with some signed by Tregellas (as usual).Vol 1: The Adventures of Rozzy Paul ...

Three works with an interest in the arts. Sven Berlin. 'Alfred Wallis, Primitive', first edition, lacks dustwrapper otherwise a fine copy, numerou...

Four works with a nautical interest. C. H. Ward-Jackson. 'Stephens of Fowey, a Portrait of a Cornish Merchant Fleet 1867 – 1939', first and only e...

S. Baring-Gould Two books Further Reminiscences, 1864-1894, 1925, first edition, John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd, London, 1925, first edition. A f...

W. A. E. Ussher F.G.S The Post-Tertiary Geology of Cornwall Printed for private circulation by Stephen Austin and Sons, Hertford. Coloured fronti...

Gilbert H. Doble The Saints of Cornwall part 1-5 The Saints of Cornwall Part One, Saints of the Lands End district, 1960, first edition, published...

Arthur H. Norway History of the Post-Office Packet Service between the years 1793-1815 Compiled from chiefly official records with additional info...

'The Hat Crusade'. Cornish Quaker interest. Samuel Fox, Edward Pickard and Edwin Tregelles. 'The Hat Crusade', first edition, printed and publishe...

Three works with an archaeology interest. A. C. Todd and Peter Laws. 'Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall', first edition, published by David and C...

Alfred John Pengelly B.E.M Oh, For A Fisherman’s Life - An Autobiography Glasney Press, Falmouth. The story of a well known and liked Looe fisherm...

Jack Clemo. Three Works 'Cactus on Carmel,' first edition, 52 pages uncut, a fine copy in dustjacket, Methuen & Co, London, 1967.'The Clay Verge,'...

Three works. R. E. Evans and G. W. Prettyman. 'Pentewan,' third edition, being a brief history of the village and dock used to load/unload cargoes...

Four works Bernard Moore. 'Cornish Catches and Other Verses', first edition, a good copy in dustwrapper, Erskine Macdonald, 1914.Bernard Moore. 'A...

Henry Sewell Stokes. 'Restormel'. 'A Legend of Piers Gaveston. The Patriot Priest, and Other Verses,' first edition, inscribed from the author Aug...

'Case Between Sir William Clayton, Bart and The Duchy of Cornwall,' John Haines (solicitor) main contributor. 'Case Between Sir William Clayton, B...

Four works with an Australian / Cornish interest. Patricia Lay. 'Cornish - Australian Heritage (a biographical register of Cornish-Australians 17...

Four works on botany and horticulture. R. Foster-Meillar. 'My Garden by the Sea,' first edition, 212 pages in original green boards, good copy, G....

Three works Charles Causley. 'Peninsula. An Anthology of Verse from the West Country,' many contributors including A.L.Rowse, John Betjeman, Jack ...

Three works. The Reverend F. W. Warnes (Vicar of Gulval). 'A Thousand Ages in Thy Sight; The Parish of Saint Gulval-in-Lanisley,' with a foreword ...

Three works. Mrs Edmund Sedding. 'The Smugglers Hole,' a tale of the North Coast of Cornwall, first edition, pictorial card covers, 37 pages, boun...

Poetry interest. Three works. R. Hambly. 'Down in a Mine and Poems of West Cornwall &C,' first edition, 94 pages in original maroon binding with s...

Family history of Cornelius Cardew Sir Alexander Cardew (Indian Civil Service retired). 'A Memoir of the Reverend Cornelius Cardew D.D. Master of ...

Three biographical works. Angus MacFarquharson. 'A Scot in Cornwall,' first edition, an account of a Scot who was advised to take his son (for hea...

Charles Bowles. 'A Short Account of the Hundred of Penwith in the County of Cornwall'. 'Compiled from Authentic Documents: With an Appendix Contai...